Melody Ranchappears in What is the meaning hung from that depend

Melody Ranch is where Grandmother has a "perfectly peachy time" on her vacation. It is daring and resourceful.

Geary Streetappears in Religion is a vague lowing

From the bus, the narrator sees a blind woman selling carnations made from tissue paper on Geary Street, as her seeing eye dog sleeps on her sweater.

Rocking Chairappears in She showed the left profile, the good one

The little, wicker rocking chair belongs to Mother before it belongs to the narrator. When the narrator gives it away, she immediately regrets the gesture but is unable to request its return without a feeling of resentment for which she feels guilty.

Apartmentappears in The coffee drinkers answered ecstatically

The long, three-story apartment building only has windows in the front and back, and this is where the narrator lives in a corner apartment...